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Turning Points demonstrates the role of style and form in promoting and shaping cultural development by studying important critics, and analyzing cultural change in literature, music, art, and philosophy.

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'No one has written seriously about 'preromanticism' for quite a while. The term itself fell into disrepute because it suggests a false teleology. Now Marshall Brown has recuperated it, refined it, and composed a big, dense, important book about it: This fresh conceptualization of the second half of the eighteenth century, touching on French and German as well as British literature, invigorates the imagination by its audacious textual conjunctions (Rasselas and Tristram Shandy, She Stoops to Conquer and An Evening Walk), its theoretical authority, and its interpretive energy. Eighteenth-century studies will never be quite the same.'Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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Through a combination of general reflections, studies of important critics, and both comprehensive and specific analyses of cultural change in literature, music, art, and philosophy, Turning Points demonstrates the role of style and form in promoting and shaping cultural development. The book proposes that works do not timelessly abstract, retrospectively reflect, or passively express; instead, they promote and shape historical change. Moving rather than consolidating, cultural expressions advance cultures not through what they say (musical works, in particular, say nothing) but through inventing new ways of communicating. Styles and forms are the vessels imagined by cultural works to convey ideas, ideologies, and structures of feeling and society. Hence, in contrast to much recent work in cultural studies, Turning Points argues that works of the imagination anticipate and produce the intellectual contexts adduced to explain them. In sum, Turning Points presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the achievements of modern European culture that blends fine-grained examples with broad considerations of both intellectual history and trends in literary criticism.

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  • PublisherStanford University Press
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 0804727082
  • ISBN 13 9780804727082
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages364

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